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The Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) investigates scientific and technological developments with a focus on their impacts and possible systemic and unintended effects. It produces analytical knowledge and assessments of socio-technical developments in order to provide policy and design options for decision-makers. The research covers ethical, ecological, economic, social, political-institutional, and cultural questions. Major goals are advice for research and technology policy, provision of knowledge for the design of socio-technical systems, and the organization and observation of discursive processes on open and controversial questions of technology policy. ITAS is involved in conceptualizing RI and is working on several RI projects. Armin Grunwald is working on issues of responsibility in fields of new and emerging sciences and technologies such as nanotechnology and synthetic biology.

VIRI Associate Director Armin A. Grunwald is professor of ethics and philosophy of technology and director of the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

The National Science Foundation recently announced a grant of nearly $500,000 to establish a new Virtual Institute for Responsible Innovation (VIRI) at the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at ASU...